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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2002): |
Substance versus style: a new look at social desirability in motivating contexts.
Full Abstract
Although there is an emerging consensus that social desirability does not meaningfully affect criterion-related validity, several researchers have reaffirmed the argument that social desirability degrades the construct validity of personality measures. Yet, most research demonstrating the adverse consequences of faking for construct validity uses a fake-good instruction set. The consequence of such a manipulation is to exacerbate the effects of response distortion beyond what would be expected under realistic circumstances (e.g., an applicant setting). The research reported in this article was designed to assess these issues by using real-world contexts not influenced by artificial instructions. Results suggest that response distortion has little impact on the construct validity of personality measures used in selection contexts.
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Author information
Author/s: Smith, D Brent (DB); Ellingson, Jill E (JE);
Affiliation: Jess H. Jones Graduate School of Management and Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA. smithb@rice.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: The Journal of applied psychology (J Appl Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Apr; vol 87 (issue 2) : pp 211-9
Dates: Created 2002/05/10; Completed 2002/06/07; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12002950, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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